Performance Guidelines for WDM Interconnects Based on Silicon Microring Resonators

Kyle Preston; Nicolás Sherwood-Droz; Jacob S. Levy; Michal Lipson; Michal Lipson

doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CThP4

CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
paper CThP4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CThP4

Performance Guidelines for WDM Interconnects Based on Silicon Microring Resonators

Kyle Preston, Nicolás Sherwood-Droz, Jacob S. Levy, and Michal Lipson

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2011

Baltimore, Maryland United States
1–6 May 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55752-910-7

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K. Preston, N. Sherwood-Droz, J. S. Levy, and M. Lipson, "Performance Guidelines for WDM Interconnects Based on Silicon Microring Resonators," in CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011), paper CThP4.

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Abstract

We derive fundamental performance tradeoffs that determine bandwidth and optical power budget in large-scale WDM links or networks utilizing silicon microresonators. Bandwidth per waveguide scales to >1THz, but nonlinearities limit optical power to milliwatt levels.

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